Friday, June 14, 2013

In Our Time tackles Prophecy

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the meaning and significance of prophecy in the Abrahamic religions. Prophets, those with the ability to convey divinely-inspired revelation, are significant figures in the Hebrew Bible and later became important not just to Judaism but also to Christianity and Islam. Although these three religions share many of the same prophets, their interpretation of the nature of prophecy often differs.With:

Mona SiddiquiProfessor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh

Justin MeggittUniversity Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and the Origins of Christianity at the University of Cambridge